The Logic Off Topic list

On Sep 18, 2006, at 9:02 AM, garygenn wrote:


> Peter, thanks for all that information it defintitely gives me some  
> ideas. The main reason I
> started thinking about this is right now I have 2 MAxtor 250 Gb  
> HD's one cam with the
> computer , the other I installed, the one I installed has my iTunes  
> Lib, My 70+ Gbs Of
> loops , and scratch disksa for Bias Pro Xt,  and I usually record  
> to it  in live and Logic pro.
> Even though I have evberything Backed up on a crap load of DVDs I  
> dont really have a solid
> Back up system. A couple weeks ago I started getting A message in  
> disk utility
> program ,"Volume Header Needs minor reapir", Well easy enough to  
> fix with reapiar disk
> but it made me start wondering ,Is my disk going bad ? So I started  
> think it would be nice
> all the way around to have a set up that mirrored the system disk  
> then have a raid set up
> fpr my music. One thing that is streange is I changed the nam e of  
> my hd I kept all my
> audio stuff on and the problem stopped . the name before was ,  
> Audio_HD , Now it is
> Audio HD I took out that underscore thinking my be the disk doesnt  
> like have that in it.
> Seems silly but that was  the only thing i did different after  
> installing the HD. ANyWay....
> Maybe I should use the maxtor in it now to do mirroring for a  
> regular back up , then set
> up a raid conf with that Jive 5 and a pci controller that has at  
> least three connections. that
> way I could have to seperate raid configurations as far as the one  
> for the two hds for the
> system and the other three for recording and library storage.


Why not just use a backup program like Retrospect and duplicate your  
disk to a second drive every day when you're done working?

Also, incremental backups can be useful to keep older versions of  
your disk in case you erase a file by mistake and then duplicate the  
disk with the erased file.  For those, it's easiest to use a large  
external drive - you can do it with DVDs but that's slow.

- Dave